PNW scientists have made a flexible “fabric” that converts body heat into electricity. Heat is energy, and most of the heat we produce — from our bodies, kitchens and cars — just dissipates into the ...

Water droplets falling through a tube have generated enough electricity to power 12 LED lights. Such an approach could one day be used in roof-based systems to harvest lots of clean power from rain.

Cindy Taff, right, and Brianna Byrd, left, with Sage Geosystems, a startup that aims to make clean electricity, visit Southwest Research Institute where testing and research is taking place in San ...